Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is the first American pope in history. Here's his nationality, background, age and more.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected Pope Leo XIV, marking the first American to hold the position.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago, has been elected Pope Leo XIV, making history as the first American to lead ...

Robert Prevost has been appointed as the 267th pope, taking the name Leo XIV. Born in Chicago, he becomes the first American ...

His ancestry, traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture, links Leo XIV to the rich and sometimes overlooked ...

Thursday marked the end of the 2025 papal conclave and an historic first, with Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago-area native born Robert Prevost being elected as the first-ever American pope.

A Chicago area priest who asked not to be named said of Prevost: “What really bothers me about this new pope is that no matter what his theological background, just like other priests and ...

He later pursued his theological education at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Although the new pontiff is American ...

Pope Leo XIV has been known as the “Latin Yankee” in Rome for the decades he worked in Peru, ministering to the dispossessed ...